27th Division men fight on Saipan
Washington (UP) –
The Navy revealed that U.S. troops fighting the bloody battle for Saipan comprised the veteran Marine 2nd and 4th Divisions and the Army 27th Infantry Divisions.
The hard-fighting expeditionary force identified for the first time in a curt Pacific Fleet headquarters press release, has taken approximately half the Japanese-held island at a cost of more than 9,000 casualties – the highest toll yet paid by U.S. forces in the Pacific.
The 27th or New York Division of Army foot soldiers was mobilized in 1940 when the New York National Guard was mustered into federal service and was subsequently sent to the Pacific Theater.
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